Decompiling Java using staged encapsulation

• Published in: Proceedings Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering pp. 368 - 374
• Main Authors: Miecznikowski, J., Hendren, L.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2001
• Subjects: Computer science; Constraint optimization; Data mining; Design optimization; Encapsulation; High level languages; Java; Pattern matching; Tree graphs; Visualization

The paper presents an approach to program structuring for use in decompiling Java bytecode to Java source. The structuring approach uses three intermediate representations: (1) a list of typed, aggregated statements with an associated exception table, (2) a control flow graph, and (3) a structure en...